Barn and Whim House North of Chyvounder is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. Barn and whim house.

Barn and Whim House North of Chyvounder

WRENN ID
gaunt-spindle-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 March 1986
Type
Barn and whim house
Address
Barn and Whim House North of Chyvounder, Mylor
OS grid reference
SW 813 364
Coordinates
50.18757, -5.06426
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn and whim house located north of Chyvounder date from the early to mid-19th century. They are constructed from shale rubble and some cob, featuring granite quoins for the barn and granite posts for the whim house. The roofs are covered with corrugated iron and have weatherboarded gable ends, although they were likely originally clad in scantle slate with hips.

The barn is a rectangular single-cell structure with doorways on the southwest end, positioned on slightly higher ground. Attached to the southeast side of the barn is the polygonal whim house, which has open sides supported by two granite posts on each side and a solid end.

Inside, the structures retain most of their original roof features and contain nearly complete wooden threshing machinery. The whim house features an overhead shaft system with a central round post, a round wooden cog wheel braced to the post, and an original wooden yoke that was operated by two pairs of oxen or horses. The word "HANDEROLLANS" is painted on one of the wheel spokes. The barn is connected to a round wooden threshing drum via a round overhead drive shaft.

To the left of the barn is a single-storey shippon made of rubble and cob, which adjoins a 17th-century house now used as a farm building. This house has a hearth at each end (one with two ovens) and two original two-light, internally ovolo-moulded wooden mullioned windows, one of which retains diagonally set bars and a rebate for leaded glazing. The whim house and barn are notable for housing some of the most complete 19th-century animal-powered threshing machinery in Cornwall.

Local climate

Barn and Whim House North of Chyvounder receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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